Netflix recently updated its mobile app with a long-awaited feature: now, you can specify how much data (approximately) it uses, so you don’t go over your cellular data cap. Netflix uses a lot of data, about 1 GB per hour while watching standard definition content. If you’re on a mobile connection with a data cap, which most […]

Windows Homegroup is great for sharing documents, pictures, and printers between computers on your home network. If you’ve had it set up for a while, you may have noticed that the ghosts of old computer hang around in your Homegroup list. Here’s how to banish them. If you’re on a home network and want an […]

Windows comes with a bunch of services running in the background. The Services.msc tool allows you to view these services and disable them, but you probably shouldn’t bother. Disabling the default services won’t speed up your PC or make it any more secure. Does It Really Save Memory and Speed Up Your Computer? Some people and websites recommend […]

Since 2005 successive Home Secretaries have authorised the collection of vast amounts of telecommunications data, documents reveal. The documents also show that MI5 secretly collected large amounts of “anonymised” financial data. Campaign group Privacy International said the documents show “the staggering extent of UK government surveillance”. The Home Office said the data acquisition had “been […]